Surgery Patients May Have Been Exposed to CJD at N.C. Hospital
CNN is reporting today that hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
CNN is reporting today that hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). To read the CNN report, CLICK HERE
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